Hog-ringer.



E. G. BUEKHART.

HOG RINGER.

APPLICATION FILED APB.28,1908.

Patented Jan. 5, 1909.

gvwwltoz E. G.T3urkhar1i 1 arranged at their pivtalportions to ho] UNITED sTAr as gljilENT OFFICE. EDWARD GEORGE BURKHART, 0F SUMNER, IOWA.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Application filed April 28, 1808. Serial No. 428,641.

x To all whom itmcg concern: hers I are formed into segmental jaws 3 Be it known that I, EDWARD GEORGE iURKnAn'r, a citizen of the United States, residing at Sumner, in the county of Bremer and State of have invented certain Patented Jan. 5, 1909.

, sizes. These grooves communicate with the new and useful Improvements in Hogfree ends of the jaws 3 and in order that Ringers; and I do hereby declare the 0 said f ds may not interfere with the lowing to be a full, clear, and exact descri 1 application of the various rings, the free as will enab el edges are arranged on converging planes others skilled in the art to which it appe one with relation to the other, as is fully shown in Fig. 1. Theopposed faces of the overlap ing poi-'- tions of the members 1 are dished as at 5. Within the dished portions of the members is located a coiled spring 6, which has one e an portion gassing throug ing 7 in one of t e members 1 posite free end portion passing through an opening 8 in the second member 1. By this arrangement, the splrin approach eac improvements in hog ringers and has prirovide a novel device of this character, w ich will effectually hold the rings to be applied.

t is also an ob'ect of the invention to provide a novel his character consisting of two pivoted one to the other, said members having a 'rin ot er and will firmly t e awscarried by the mem rs normally at the limit of their inward movement. Th

t is also an object of th posite to the jaws 3 are bowed and are so provide a novel device of constructed that their free ends contact with each other and thereby limit th of various sizes. of the jaws 3 in their relation to each other.

It is also an object of the invention. to The contact of the free ends of the bowed provide a novel device of this character,

which will be simple in construction, eflicient and advantageous in practice and comparatively inexpensive to manufacture.

With the above and other objects in view, It is to be stated that the form of ringer the invention consists in the details of conillustrated in the accompanying drawing struction and in the novel arrangement and need not, of necessity, be employed, as any construction of parts to be hereinafter re; of the well-known ringers now 1n use may ferred to. e supplied with the essential features of In describing the invention in detail, reftie present invention, which are mainly the erence will be had to the accompanying ished overlapping portions and the coil 4o drawings forming part of this specification, springs therein.

wherein like characters of reference denote corresponding parts. in the several views and in which a i \F gure 1 1s a view in perspect1ve of the i invention. Fig. 2

indicated on line 22, Fi 3. Fi 3 1s a view taken on line 33, l' ig. 2. l ig. 4 is a View in perspective of the coil spring used I in the invention, and, Fig. 5 1s a. view of 1th reference to the spring, it is to be stated that any form of spring is to be employed that will operate with proper facility. In Fig. 5 of the drawings, 6 indicates a slightly modified form of spri'n but these s rings can be further change as is believe to be apparent.

It has been hereinbefore stated that the ringer is intended to be employed with rings a sh htly modified form of spr iiig. Figs. 0 various sizes. By this is meant that the 6 and 7 illustrate further modified forms I ring can be employed with the hog size or of springs. i I the pi size.

In the drawin 1 denoteatwo members s t e forms of springs shown in Figs. ivoted interme iate their length have in practice proven most desirb me} sand-7 olt 2. Adjacent end portions of the mem,- able, it is thought well that the same should will cause the jaws be illustrated. It is not believed however, against the exterior surfaces of the dished 20 that a brief description thereof need be portion, adjacent ends of the members bevgiven. ing formed into jaws, the opposite end por- Whai; I claim is; V tions being bowed, the said aws being seg- In a; device of the character described, mental, and havmg a lural ty of grooves in the combination of two members crossing h n 0 p d flw s 0 vary ng engths, h 25 each other intermediate their lengths, the fr e en edges of the aws bemg arranged on opposed faces of the members being dished, an incl ne whereb a larger-openmg will be a pivot pin passin through the members formed on one 51 e of the aws than on the and through the ished portions thereof, other, the longer grooves 1n the aws be said members having openmgs in the walls adjacent the Side of he Jaw hevln'g the 30 of the dished portions, the opening in one 1a p ningmemberbeing opposed 'to the o ening of the n tes imony whereof I have signed my pivot pin of the members,

secqnd member, 331d opemngs ing in difname 110 this specification in the presence of ferent planes, a spiral spri giembrecing the two SllbSCI'lblllg witnesses. I

e ends of said 0 EDWARD GEORGE BURKHABT. s rings being an lar, and passing through W1tnesses: t e openings of t e dished portions, the ex- SAMUEL MATHESON, tended portion of the springs bearing E. L.B0PP. 

